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Success through failure : the paradox of design /

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Examines many of the failed designs and inventions that led to greater improvements siting as examples the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the space shuttle disasters.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Petroski, Henry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Engineering design > Case studies.
System failures (Engineering) > Case studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • From Plato's cave to PowerPoint
  • Success and failure in design
  • Intangible things
  • Things small and large
  • Building on success
  • Stepping-stones to super-spans
  • The historical future
  • Notes
  • Index.